Anyone who has followed this blog for any length of time knows that Vodka is a huge fan of Courtney Barnett. Courtney has teamed up with Kurt Vile for a long-player, Lotta Sea Lice (due out October 13, 2017). Here is the first single released from the LP, Over Everything, which is as feel-good and unpretentious as any of Barnett’s solo work. Over Everything is a look at finding bright moments when there are “big dark clouds in my periphery.” Kurt Vile is a singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist…
Read MoreCrying Day Care Choir are three beautiful, blended voices, assorted instruments, and an attitude about folk music that contains some of pop music’s better hooks. It’s a win-win combination, as detailed here in the single Sad Season (February 2017), which is anything but sad. The trio made up of husband and wife, Jack and Sara Elz with Bill Nystedt has one long-player and a few singles and EP’s dating back to 2012. You can find a little bit of information on the band on their facebook page or you…
Read MoreSinger and songwriter, Lesley Kernochan, has explored several different song styles during her career that spans over a decade. Take her debut full-length, Undulating from 2006 for instance. That LP explored a capella in a one-woman mix of layers of Lesley. It was innovative back then, and I would imagine that just sticking to that style would have made Lesley unique and successful. That is something that she obviously was not content with as she has done progressive folk music, children’s music, and various shades of folk-pop since…
Read MoreJade Jackson’s debut long-player, Gilded (May 2017), hosts this somewhat autobiographical track, Finish Line, about running past the finish line in life and reaching for your goals hard. As a lyricist, Ms. Jackson writes from the heart, opening it gently so that you can feel her feelings. As a singer-songwriter, she can pen a voice for those lyrics and weave a tune that will expand your imagination along with her own. Mildly country, these tracks hint more at folk storytelling than they do of anything else. Ms. Jackson is…
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